Hello, my name is Niamh McHugh and I am currently at the beginning of my final year of my PhD. I am a part of the Midlands ESRC DTP Training Pathway, holding a joint studentship at Loughborough University and the …
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‘Agro-ecology and organic agriculture as a counterforce to (super-) productivist farming in Brazil: innovative strategies in a time of crisis‘ – Dr Felipe da Silva Machado (University of Plymouth)
Politics and the Rural: (New) Spaces for Contentious Politics beyond the Urban – Viktoria Noka (University of Glasgow)
Toward an integrative framework for the governance of sustainable agricultural innovation – Auvikki de Boon, University of Reading.
RGRG AGM 2021
The RGRG committee is a lively, enthusiastic and friendly committee with a good cross section representation of rural geographers. We are dedicated to all things ‘rural’ covering a diverse range of topic areas. We are currently looking for new committee …
A PhD, a pandemic and the peripheral
Newcastle University: PhD Candidate: Hannah Budge
I am currently in the first year of my PhD at Newcastle University in the Centre for Rural Economy. My project is funded by the ESRC through the Northern Ireland and North East Doctoral …
Dissertation awards: Conditions for submissions
Undergraduate
The prize is open to any currently registered undergraduate student at a UK university and will be awarded to the dissertations that exhibit the best overall contributions to the wide range of issues relating to rural geography. Three prizes …
Covid 19 Crisis Short part 3 – Short of Milk, Short of Cash
PhD Candidate: Théo Lenormand (Countryside and Community Research Institute)
This analysis is based on my master’s degree thesis from 2019 which was funded by the Carasso Foundation as part of a project aimed at understanding the impact of the Common …
2019/20 Dissertation Prize Winners announced
We would like to congratulate our undergraduate dissertation prize winners for 2019/20. We had some high standards this year so these prizes are well earned. Many thanks to Dr Fiona Williams and RGRG committee members …
Living cultural heritage within the Lake District National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site
PhD Candidate: Faye Shortland (University of Birmingham)
I am now in the final year of my PhD, supervised by Dr Steven Emery (University of Birmingham) and Dr Katy Bennett (University of Leicester). It began in September …






